Identifier: victrolabookofop00vict (find matches)
Title: The Victrola book of the opera : stories of one hundred and twenty operas with seven-hundred illustrations and descriptions of twelve-hundred Victor opera records
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Victor Talking Machine Company Rous, Samuel Holland
Subjects: Operas
Publisher: Camden, N.J. : Victor Talking Machine Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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, and the lovers are united in celestial India. Promesse de mon avenir (Oh, Promise of a Joy Divine) By Emilio de Gogorza, Baritone (In French) 88172 12-inch, $3.00 The most famous of the numbers is of course this superb air for baritone in the fourthact, which La Salle sang in the first production with great success. A portion of the finetranslation by Dudley Buck, from the Schirmer Operatic Anthology (CopytG. Schirmer),is given here by permission. Scindia: The Sultans barbrous horde, who had so gladly rivenFrom us fair Lahore,By our own might have from the field been driven.From care my people free,Loudly sound forth my praises! O promise fair of joy divine, Sita, *»*******»#** Thou dream of all my life, Sita, my queen thou soon shalt be! O beauty torn from me by strife, To thee the world its glory offers, At last, thou shalt be mine! O Sita! To thee a king his crown now proffers; O fair one, charm my loving heart, Come, Sita, O come! ah! be mine!And neer again from me depart! 436
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KARNAC CHALLENGES MYLIO (French) (English) LE ROI DYS THE KING OF YS OPERA IN THREE ACTS AND FIVE TABLEAUX Text by Edouard Blau ; music by £douard Lalo. First production at the Opera Comique,Paris, May 7, 1888, with Talazac, Bouvet, Cobalet, Fournets, Deschamps and Simonnet. Theopera made a great success and was awarded the Acddemie prize of three thousand francs.It had its hundredth representation in Paris, May 7, 1889, and is still in the repertory of theOpera Comique. First, and probably only American production, at the New Orleans Opera,January 23, 1890, with Furst, Balleroy, Geoffroy, Rossi, Leavinson and Beretta. Characters The King Margaret,! ,. , ,. Rozenn, / hls daushters MYLIO, a Knight PRINCE OF KARNAC, at war with the King People, Soldiers, Gentlemen of the Court, Ladies, Horsemen, Retainers Time and Place : Armorica (Ancient Brittany); Middle Ages. After a life of constant struggle and much hard work, Lalo, at the age of sixty-five, suc-ceeded in having his Le Roi dYs pr

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